Pete BansenBancrest Dairy

Lucy AreiasA&M Farms

My favorite hobby is football - I love football. But I also love to sleep!

The Dairy Stateof mind

California is home to more than 1,500 dairy farms.

99% of California dairy farms are family owned.

Nearly 43% of all of California milk goes to make California Cheese.

Rain means green and green means pastures. The climate in this area allows for a lot of pasture-based grazing that mimics the way big herds of migratory animals live in the wild. Every time a cow leaves the milk barn they have a new, fresh area of grass to graze.

Tulare County is the largest dairy-producing county in the nation. It also has the most milk cows with 450,000.

Farms in this region can get pretty warm. To help make sure the cows are comfortable, farms here use freestall barns to keep the cows cool throughout the summer. On the plus side, all that sunshine means farms can also grow crops during multiple growing seasons.

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The Dairy State

The many, many reasons California is the perfect place for dairy.

Rain means green and green means pastures. The climate in this area allows for a lot of pasture-based grazing that mimics the way big herds of migratory animals live in the wild. Every time a cow leaves the milk barn they have a new, fresh area of grass to graze.

Tulare County is the largest dairy-producing county in the nation. It also has the most milk cows with 450,000.

Farms in this region can get pretty warm. To help make sure the cows are comfortable, farms here use freestall barns to keep the cows cool throughout the summer. On the plus side, all that sunshine means farms can also grow crops during multiple growing seasons.

Our Farms - The Dairy State of Mind

California is home to more than 1,500 dairy farms.

99% of California dairy farms are family owned.

Nearly 43% of all of California milk goes to make California Cheese.

Farmsmarts

Dairy farming has come a long way since the days of a stool and a bucket…

MixerWagons

Feeding the Future.

Help keep cows happy and healthy by producing a feed mix that significantly improves digestion and milk quality.

Engineered to operate in the toughest of conditions: heat, cold, rain or shine.

Drone

Flying Above the Farm

At Maddox dairy farm, Steve Maddox uses a remote controlled, camera carrying quadcopter (a helicopter with four rotors) to check the health and wellbeing of his cows and crops. Pretty cool right?

CarouselMilk Parlor

Now that’s what we call a moo-ry-go-round!

Holds 40 - 80 cows at a time

The milking unit is applied by the milker after entry

There are 3 in the state that float on water

RFID Tags

Cow chips… But not that kind.

Identifies each cow as well as when she was milked, how much milk she gave and which stall she was in

Some cows have a second chip implanted in the rear allowing one person to scan and perform other tasks like vaccinations